Aka - Fate
This was a clunker right from the start and at about the one hour mark I
had to decide whether to go on. It had more absurdities than monkeys reading
in a zoo - how much more of Bobby Deol could I take. An actor who I find
insufferable with his smirky smugness. Maybe that is what comes of being
a privileged son in a filmi family. His father was the great Dharmendra,
his brother Sonny is a big star and his sister Esha came out of the incubator
and was given a leading role in her first film. That is how it works in filmi
families. That tradition I suppose goes back hundreds of years when traveling
entertainers passed from generation to generation in their caste system.
The father and the two sons are action stars - rough and tumble actors, slugging
it out, taking a punch and giving four. Dharmendra is terrific because he
could play soft as well when needed and co-starred with some legendary actresses.
Even married one, Hema Malini, while still being married to his first wife
and mother of Bobby and Sunny. A neat trick if you can pull it off.
Anyways, I continued because I was curious how it would turn out. If Bobby
ended up with Priyanka Chopra, I was going to throw something at my TV. Tomorrow,
I take my TV in for repairs. His character Tony is a street thug working
for Mr. Patil who assigns him the smack people around work, an enforcer and
he seems to relish it. But you see it is not really his fault. When he was
seven his uncle and aunt brought him to Mumbai in a train and when he was
sleeping, they snuck away. Initially, you are shocked but then when we see
what he has become, we are thinking that was pretty smart of them. You don't
want to bring up a psychotic. One fellow pissed him off and he chases him
down the street and stabs him 8 times in the back for all to see. His friend
drags Tony to a concert and Sapna (Priyanka) is the star and he becomes a
stalker. A really creepy one. With a cigarette dangling from his mouth and
sunglasses firmly in place. He is always there. And one day they need a dancer
for a video and who steps in - yes, Tony.
His thugness continues and one day he forces a doctor to sign some papers.
Turns out it was to release some expired drugs and when children take the
medicine, they die. He is in big shit and arrested. People riot and want
to kill him and his family. The doctor turns out to be Sapna's father. Oops.
What are the chances. Now he has to make up for it by bringing the real villain
(Kabir Bedi) to justice. At one point they run over Tony, surround him with
guns pointing down at him and he grabs their ankles and throws them about
20-feet and then kills the rest. But that is nothing compared to the time
he is captured, strapped to a wheelchair, tortured, has his bare feet smashed
by a hammer and then rolls away, later telling them this was his plan from
the beginning.
I may be making it sound better than it is. The action is so poorly done
- a blind man can see the punches are missing by literally a foot. Priyanka
learns what he did and hates him. And that is when I was thinking, please
don't have then get together in the end - he is a stalker, a nasty piece
of work, a killer but this is Bollywood. Lots of musical numbers and not
badly done but the fashions on the men background dancers were ghastly. Priyanka
looks fab, it gets darker than expected but the ending is out of a cracker
jack box. Priyanka deserves better.
